First major Wenatchee apple sale nets 250000 boxes at $1 each
J B Adams reports the Wenatchee Valley sale of 250 000 apple boxes at one dollar per box with ten percent in advance and balance on delivery. The pool distributes to districts Cashmere Leavenworth Peshastin Monitor Entiat Chelan Olds Wenatchee East Wenatchee Trinidad and totals about one tenth of the crop. Apples are headed for Australia and South America under the Wenatchee Central Washington Growers League.
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Wenatchee Valley
Eastern
Middle States
Adams
Yakima
Hood River
Cashmere
Leavenworth
Peshastin
Monitor
Entiat
Chelan
Olds
Wenatchee
East Wenatchee
Trinidad
Australia
South America
Railroad Rumblings and Locomotive News
Long railroad week with switch engine work resuming near Tye and Mallet engine additions on the Cascade division. Officials report a 150 percent business rise in two weeks and routine personnel shifts including Ted Bresch as roundhouse foreman and Corbett and McClain’s travel to Spokane. Obituaries note John Knicesky and Michael E. Ryan, with funeral details and honorary pallbearers.
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C. J. Carlson
Mansfield
John McKinnon
Bill Tegtmeier
Cascade
Briggs
Burt Hegler
Ted Bresch
R. L. Smith
Ed Lenz
Wilson Creek
Hillyard
Art Babst
Roundhouse
Spokane and
Marcus
F. D. Kelsey
Spokane
G. N
John Knicesky
Great Northern
Sopik
The
C. H. Putnam
C. S. Albert
Geo. S. Stewart
Wm. Kelly
Chas. Mundy
A. M. Anderson
B. McGowan
Geo. Williams
W. G. Hendry
Thomas Balmer
Frank Gavin
Corbett
al Weaver
Apple Contracts Signal Shifting Trade Ties Amid Market Struggles
Yakima reports the first apple contract of the year fixates Rainier, Winesap and other varieties with prices from 55 to 80 cents per box and a $250 upfront payment. Hood River growers say British maritime preference and Australian boycott reduce American fruit prospects, thinning demand for 250,000 boxes this week including 50,000 for Australia.
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Yakima
Wenatchee
Yakima Republic
George W. Sherwood
Lower Naches
Fred Eberle
W. W. Scott
Sherwood
Rainier
Arkansas
Australia
Hydraulic mining prospect near Leavenworth attracts operators
A miner named Hinton from Entiat arrived with hydraulic ram and centrifugal pump. He plans to develop a gravel bed in the Wenatchee river basin about two and a half miles east of town, installing machinery after favorable impressions. The Wenatchee gravel beds are noted gold sources with past small yields nearby.
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Hinton
Entiat
Wenatchee River
Wenatchee
Wm. Smith
Leavenworth
The Big Tog gery Sale Closes Tomorrow
The reorganization sale at the Tog gery ends tomorrow after two weeks of effort. Proprietors say the sale went very well with printer's ink promotion driving the merchandise. Mr. Verbsky led the effort with help from Van Brocklin Bill Simpson and Spencer Blangenship.
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Toggery
Verbsky
van Brocklin
Bill Simpson
Spencer Blangenship
Alberta votes dry with Lethbridge exception
Alberta voters moved to prohibition nearly two to one in the province wide election held Tuesday. Edmonton supported dry by a 3,600 majority and Calgary by 3,300 while Lethbridge stayed wet. The new liquor prohibition act takes effect July 1, 1916.
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Alberta
Lethbridge
Edmonton
Drys
Calgary
War progress and major fronts in Europe and Greece
Summary of recent wartime developments across Europe. Desultory fighting on the French-German front contrasts with the long Russian- German battle line near Warsaw. Greece moves toward joining the Entente under Venizelos with a large parliamentary majority. Romania’s stance on wartime material transit unsettles Austria and Germany. The narrative notes American freight cars and locomotives arriving to aid Russian forces, munitions shipments from the US and Japan, and preparations in Greece. It mentions casualties from the Dardanelles expedition and warns of Sweden’s possible entry into the war. It also reports Italian gains and Austrian losses in Cadore and Carni, and a bread shortage rippling in the Balkans and Hungary.
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Darius
Russian
Poland
Warsaw
Italy
Austria
Vladivostok
United States
Japan
Moscow
Big Force Employed Fixing Snoqualmie Pass
Snoqualmie Pass repair crews, 25 men and 25 teams, work to restore one mile wrecked by heavy rains. Eight miles softened, Cadillac prown, trucks aid motoring. 200 transcontinental autos pass through since opening June 15, now at 20 daily. Cherry shipments rise with Yakima canners driving value over $100,000. Asiatic coins remade into US money as foreign gold melted. large shipments from Japan and England.
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Snoqualmie Pass
Ziba Bennet
Pine Bluff
Ark
Spokane
Good Roads Association
United States
Shanahan
San Francisco
Australia
Uncle Sam
Steel mill restarts in Wheel ing district downtow n Riverside plant
The last idle steel mill in the Wheel ing district began operations Monday at the Riverside plant of the National Tube Company. Two weeks are needed to bring all departments online, restoring work to 5,000 men idle for 14 months.
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Wheeling
West Virginia
Riverside
National Tube Company
Train Plunged 200 Feet Off Trestle Near Dalhart
An El Paso and Southwestern freight train plunged 200 feet into a gulch near Dalhart Texas on Tuesday killing three men. The wreck destroyed the engine and ten loaded cars.
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Dalhart
Texas
el Paso & Southwestern
Roosevelt Praises Nation in Portland Dispatch
Theodore Roosevelt spoke in Portland before his San Francisco trip where he will deliver three speeches. The dispatch notes his steady crowd drawing and his alert stance on national issues, warning against sapheads and mollycoddles.
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Portland
San Francisco
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Bishop Bassford Foresees War With Orient
Bishop J W Bassford, in a Southern Methodist conference at Junas Lake North Carolina, predicted an inevitable war between the United States and the Orient. He is stationed in Peking and heads church work in that region. Critics will accuse him of serving warmaking interests.
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J. W. Bassford
Southern Methodist Church
Junas Lake
North Carolina
United States
Orient
Bassford
Peking
China
Note to Germany Brief, White House Cautions Disclosure
The president warned those he advised to avoid discussing the note before its dispatch to Germany. White House officials urged correspondents to refrain from detailed speculation as the document’s final form was not settled. The note is expected to be brief and reflect U S conclusions after Germany failed to provide requested assurances for Americans at sea aboard unresisting vessels.
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Germany
White House
Strike at the Krupp Gun Works Threatens Nationwide
A Basel dispatch reports a meeting in Essen between Krupp Gun Works administration and workers over wage demands involving about 100000 men. Some concessions were granted, but workers remain dissatisfied and leave the works. authorities warn of drastic measures if no immediate settlement is reached, citing risk to munitions supply.
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Krupp
German Emperor’s Popularity Rises in War Said by Neutral
A London Times report from Germany quotes a neutral correspondent praising the German emperor as the ideal ruler admired by his people. He is seen as clever active and brilliant with piety and public deeds matching popular tastes though he wields less direct influence on military strategy as generals steer campaigns.
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London Times
Germany
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R. D. Hawkins
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al Barnes
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H. L. Kistler
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Dr. Hammarksjold
Berlin
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Carni
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